It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

This resource provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of History through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: An overview of what writing characteristics are valued in History ...

The consultants for the 2024-2025 Academic Year are Tim Case, Thalia Chryanthis, Jen Motter and Peighton Young We are advanced Ph.D. Candidates in the William & Mary History Department. We are very ...

Schoolchild’s homework in Greek on a wax tablet, Egypt, 2nd century AD (copyright the British Library) LONDON — A 2,000-year-old wax tablet bears inscriptions of the Greek homework of an Egyptian ...

Madeleine Blais teaches Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” in journalism classes because it is compelling and beautiful, she said, a masterpiece. She uses the book to show her students at the University ...

William & Mary’s History Writing Resources Center has helped the university’s students fine-tune their history writing skills for more than 20 years. Now it will expand its impact to teachers and ...

While today we can get machines to write for us, for most of human history, writing was a manual endeavor. And there are people who are super passionate about keeping it that way. Some schools are ...

A statement of threshold concepts in art history “So you’re taking an art history course”: A Description of Writing Characteristics Valued in Art History “This is how we write and do research in art ...

Nationalism has always been intimately connected with the sense of past. Whether defined generally as identification with a putative cultural collectivity known as a nation, or all the more ...

“The increase in the velocity of history means, among other things, that the ‘present’ becomes the ‘past’ more swiftly than ever before.” There is nothing new about man’s recording the events of his ...